Zaterdag 26 september – Rise of ‘eco-anxiety’ affecting more and more children says Bath climate psychologist. Artikel door onderzoeker Caroline Hickman op de website van de University of Bath. Het bevat verontrustende inzichten en een link naar dit filmpje, met de kern van haar betoog (in de kern: neem kinderen serieus). Het artikel verwijst onder andere naar het (helaas ongedateerde) artikel Climate Changes Mental Health, van de American Public Health Association, waar je dit rijtje ‘fast facts’ kunt vinden:
More than 40 million adults in the U.S. suffer from a mental illness.
Victims of natural disasters are at an increased risk of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and suicide.
25-50% of people exposed to an extreme weather disaster are at risk of adverse mental health effects.
Up to 54% of adults and 45% of children suffer depression after a natural disaster.
Forty-nine percent of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina developed an anxiety or mood disorder, and 1 in 6 developed PTSD. Suicide and suicidal ideation more than doubled.
After a record drought in the 1980s, the suicide rate doubled, including more than 900 farmers in the Upper Midwest.
